Editing Team Yankee (section)

===Asian Powers===
You may have noticed that this may be a 'world war' but there is one notable part of the world currently left out of the fighting: Asia, and by Asia we mean China, and to a much lesser degree Japan and Korea. Korea is an easy one: that is a situation that would almost 100% pop off in a world war three situation. In our world Russian reduiced aid to North Korea in 1985 under Mikhail Gorbachev, but in Team Yankee we got a military Hawk which is what set all this off. So this is a fight the USSR would be stoking if for no other reason then the USSR would love to draw US troops away from Europe and really put America's claim of being able to fight "Two-and-a-half wars" to the test. North Korea with heavy support from the USSR would also likely go for it. Japan meanwhile is still technically barred from waging offensive wars, but in 1960 they signed a defensive treaty in place with the USA that also is the legal justification for US military bases. So in a WW3 situation, USSR declares war on Europe, NATO triggers so America is at war, then the "''Treaty of Mutual Cooperation and Security between the United States and Japan''" triggers and Japan is also at war with the USSR, and presumable North Korea in the aforementioned situation where the USSR start's that up. So USA, Japan and South Korea VS the USSR and North Korea. There you go battlefront just wrote the plot of an entire expansion for you.

And now to address the Dragon in the room: China. China is. . .complicated. They are 100% a communist power and had this game been set during the late 50-60's China would be in this fight as well on the USSR side since the USSR helped the early Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in one of the Cold War's first proxy conflicts with the USA supporting the Nationalist who would later be reduced to Taiwan. But the two nations would drift apart and by the time of Team Yankee the two communists governments are very much split. Now a days China is seen as a super power and by 1985 it's very much a regional "Big Dog" just starting to flex it's international muscles in ways that it's still doing to this day. The big question of course is if WW3 started between the USSR and NATO: would China get involved? 

That is very hard to predict. You could say they join, reluctantly, with the Russians to prevent the USA from taking all of North Korea and putting a unfriendly power on there border. You could also say that the USA could preemptively strike China expecting them to join a war and wanting to get a cheap shot before there ready, which would make them join Russia that way. You could make the argument they would join the American/NATO side in order to get territory grabs from the USSR and resolve some territorial disputes while there distracted. You could also arge the same from the other side, join the USSR to get territory protected by the USA that they claim (COUGH-Taiwan-COUGH) You could even reasonably expect them to simply do the opposite of whatever India does, (Which would also mean it end up on the same side as Pakistan). Really it's a crap shoot with them. And despite how logical it is for Asian action in this WW3 alternate history Battlefront is using, it's an open question they even show up at all given how touchy the CCP is about depictions of China and how tense things are between China and the west.

And then finally there's India; India in the Cold War was the poster child for non-interventionism and leading "the third way", which was a convenient foil for their actual motivation of really hating China.  At first, India wanted to just distance themselves from Great Britain, although their relations with the Communists were hardly any better as the Soviets had a hand in Pakistan.  The real turning point came when Nixon went to China.  To India this was a startling turn for the worst, and in response they started hedging their bets by buying weapons from the Russians.  In any Cold War scenario, the only constant about India is their loathing of China.  All other interactions pivot around that relationship.